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A quiet mind cureth all.
Be not solitary, be not idle
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
If you like not my writing, go read something else.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.